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My perfect holiday is when I can sit back with a book on an easy chair and not answer for my idleness to anyone. I do not mind what book I read really. Books are meant to do something to me and it is all that I expect in a holiday as well. After having fortified myself with some solid breakfast a book stays with me for the day till sleep claims me. I casually dip into the page where I stopped last only to make a free fall. I have no intention of finishing the book on hand but let an accidental word or passage to trigger certain responses to set me free. By such manner one might take me for a traveler who has circumnavigated the globe many times over. I am a traveler non pareil who never got wet even when I went after Moby Dick. I have been with Crusoe and not a speck of sand got into my shoes by that experience; even as I followed him around on that desolate isle I was as affected as he. He may not have had me much as a company but I had him and it was great. Holiday is where you get your pleasure without others exacting theirs out of you. Books on that score alone top the list of essential items that make up my holiday travels.
Looking back I can quite recall my first holiday with my father. The school was closed for summer and three months I could claim as my due for having mastered multiplication tables. My slate and pencils were thrown into a heap along with books as of no use. No more I would need rap on my knuckles with a ruler from my master but let to be myself. It was something. How often can a child of 8 be told to act his age? I could have wished to go to the zoo or for a movie. No my father had decided sea air would do some good. How thrilling that notion was! A child of seven or eight is wet behind the ears so he wishes to see an animal that is something of a rarity. He wants to see something else because he is bored. His world is so small. But the suggestion coming from my father had something of a new world. An adventure! Only when we walked along the magical sea shore I knew I had come to an important point in my life. The sea would take me faraway places. On that moment something seemed to open my understanding. It was a liberating moment. The sea and I. I watched in fascination the waves riding towards me. Bedazzled as though the wave that surrounded my ankles cast a spell. It will take me on a journey, after all. I must have shivered at the thrill of it. My father intuitively took hold of my hand. Clutching my hands harder he said, " You have learned multiplication tables. Division isn't a big deal." It would have been so if he had not set about teaching me division. Then and there. Since then I decided the idea of holiday travels will have an altogether new definition for me.
Of course I used to think seeing places made the holiday travel worth the while. No more I subscribe to the Philistine notion that seeing places is essential for a man's education. You go to Washington D.C, London, New Delhi or Amsterdam. I speak from experience. If you think you soak up culture by such a visit, perish the thought. Without any exception all that you see will be the same: McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Subway and so on. Holiday travels, when all said and done, help you renew yourself. Allow me to do it my way.


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Office of the Provost
The Office of the Provost is at the core of academic administration and planning at William & Mary. The Provost is the chief academic officer for the university and oversees Arts & Sciences and our four schools — Education, Law, Mason School of Business and Marine Science/VIMS.
The Provost works closely with the President, senior management team and Board of Visitors to effectively plan and manage the university's strategic planning efforts, strengthen William & Mary as a leading liberal arts university in the 21st century and build a new financial model for William & Mary.
A priority of the Provost's responsibilities is on nurturing our world-class faculty and working with them to foster an environment that stimulates their teaching and research efforts, with a focus on student achievement in the classroom and research lab.
A team of exemplary vice provosts, deans and highly specialized administrators is part of the Provost's Office, and each brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and commitment to excellence that have been part of William & Mary's reputation for over 300 years.

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Barron's Buzz: Has Kors Knocked Out Coach?
Investors seem to believe Michael Kors has delivered a knockout punch to Coach. And how to find reward in bonds these days. Barron's Magazine senior editor Jack Hough joins The News Hub with a preview of this week's issue.
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I have used Purdy brushes for about 6 months now. These are my ALL TIME FAVORITE brushes ever. When I first started doing DIY painting projects, I purchased whatever brush was the cheapest. I didn't buy into the higher end brushes being truly better at that time. I thought it was the painter not the painting brush. Well, then I finally purchased my first one - a 1.5" XL Glide. I honestly could not believe how comfortable they were, how much easier painting was with them, and the best part - how easily they cleaned and kept their shape! I've been using that first one I bought still, 6 months later, and it still had it's initial shape with no frayed bristles or anything.
They are by FAR my must have painting brush. I've also recently used their roller brush on my son's bathroom make over which I loved too!
Purdy also sponsors YouCanSaveTheWalls.com - site where consumers can go to get painting and decorating advice from HGTV design star Lisa LaPorta. There is a lot of creative ideas offered plus a great tool to help you pick which brush is best for your project.
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Designer's Tip: When using Frantage, heat from underneath the cardstock. Sprinkle embossing powders/enamels on top and add glitters, micas, ect. and allow to melt together as you heat with heat gun from underneath. The embossing powder will adhere the glitters or micas firmly to your piece, adding texture to your project.


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Big city summer language camps? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Big city summer language camps? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General North America Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message teechagimmeJoined: 29 Dec 2010Posts: 56Location: S. Korea Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:13 am Post subject: Big city summer language camps? I've got a CELTA and 3 years of experience teaching in Asia and the M.E. and I think that I would like to work for one of the programs that shows foreign students around some of the major tourist attractions while giving them some classroom time. It would be really nice if the program had students from some different countries coming together to learn. Pairing up kids whose only common language is this English teacher's idea of fun. Back to top spiral78Joined: 05 Apr 2004Posts: 11534Location: On a Short Leash Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 10:48 am Post subject: Problem is that those big cities are heavily populated by hungry ESL teachers grabbing up those summer school jobs as fast as possible - with the added advantage of insider knowledge of all the cool attractions in the area. Maybe target your own home city, where you might have a bit of an edge and some useful contacts? Back to top teechagimmeJoined: 29 Dec 2010Posts: 56Location: S. Korea Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 2:55 am Post subject: While I dearly love my home in the Great Lakes Region of the midwest, it's charm goes largely unrecognized by the rest of the world and I would like to put my map reading skills to use, Back to top teechagimmeJoined: 29 Dec 2010Posts: 56Location: S. Korea Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 3:02 am Post subject: While I dearly love my home in the Great Lakes Region of the midwest, it's charm goes largely unrecognized by the rest of the world and I would like to put my map reading skills to use, Back to top DidahJoined: 25 Jul 2009Posts: 88Location: Planet Tralfamador.... and so it goes Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 1:45 pm Post subject: Hi, You might want to try Ardmore Language Schools. They have summer camps on both coasts. I filled out an online application and was offered a job for the six weeks their program is running. I worked for them before and they are a good organization. Good luck. Back to top scintillatestarJoined: 19 Oct 2009Posts: 74Location: New York, NY Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 8:27 pm Post subject: In NYC, you could also try LSI, ELS, and Rennert. A lot of programs have summer schools. Some K-12 teachers work in these programs, but they often have conections that lead to jobs at higher paying camps. See below for two schools looking for teachers @ $20/hr. ESL Teacher Posted: April 28, 2014 Type:� part-time Organization:� ZUMA Education Location: NYC Description: ZUMA Education is looking for qualified ESL teachers for its International Summer Camp at Manhattan College, New York. Our courses are designed to develop learner proficiency in English using communicative, student centered methodology. We specifically focus on language activation, confidence building, and communicative competence. Our syllabus is topic based and focuses on useful, practical, functional language, which the learners will use in real life. Courses include a full leisure, activity and excursion program. 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Articulation Agreements
These articulation agreements are contracts approved by each institution that match coursework between Robert Morris University and the community colleges and other schools listed below. These agreements define how courses from one college can be used to satisfy a subject matter requirement here at RMU.
The RMU team has been reaching out to our regional community colleges to make it even easier for students to transfer into RMU from more community colleges than ever before.
Take a look at the list below to find your school. Click on it to see the course equivalencies for programs at your school that will transfer directly to majors and degree programs here at RMU.
- Butler County Community College
- Community College of Allegheny County
- Community College of Beaver County
- Westmoreland County Community College
What happens if an articulation agreement isn't in place for my school?
RMU's Transfer Office is eager to meet with you to discuss your transfer options. We will go over your transcripts and provide you with an evaluation and are here to assist you in making an easy transition to RMU. Please contact one of our Transfer Counselors at 412-397-5200.


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The Dead Sea Scrolls Come to America
July 15 issue feature: Large Exhibit Tours in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — A small selection of the Dead Sea Scrolls is touring America, supported by the largest set of Holy Land artifacts ever to travel outside of Israel. Following a successful run in New York, the touring exhibit, called "Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times," will be at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia until October. Its next stop has not yet been determined.
At the heart of the exhibit: 20 pieces from texts discovered in caves overlooking the Dead Sea.
In 1946 (or possibly 1947), a Bedouin shepherd threw a rock into a cave and heard something smash. He was disappointed to find crumbling scrolls, along with some of the pottery in which they had been stored, rather than treasure, but the scrolls themselves would prove to be one of the most important archaeological finds of the 20th century.
By 1956, 11 more caves were discovered and explored, resulting in the recovery of more than 100,000 fragments from 900-plus different documents.
Catholics were involved in the process from early on, with Dominican Father Roland de Vaux leading the project and heading up the excavation of the nearby settlement of Qumran. It was Father de Vaux who made the link between the scrolls, Qumran and a community of ascetic Jews called the Essenes.
Described by Josephus, Philo and Pliny the Elder, the Essenes were a Jewish sect that flourished perhaps as early as 200 years before the birth of Christ and seemed to have faded away following the Jewish Revolt. At some point, most likely during the uprising against Rome, the scrolls were secreted away in the caves for protection, and when the community was lost, they were forgotten until their discovery 1,900 years later. (Although this is the dominant theory, some scholars take sharp exception to this interpretation of the evidence of the scrolls and the remains at Qumran.)
The finds shed important light on a period of Jewish history and life in which Christianity also began to grow. The scrolls included pieces of every Old Testament text except for Esther, and thus are particularly important for understanding the textual history of the Bible.
As Father Patrick Brady, chair of the Department of Sacred Scripture at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, observes, "The Bible was a handwritten text, and, over centuries, copying errors creep into the text. The oldest Old Testament manuscripts that we possessed before the discovery dated to the eighth century A.D. The Dead Sea Scrolls offer us manuscripts, some of which date back to 200 B.C. The DSS documents include things written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. Among them were parts of three Deuterocanonical documents: Sirach written in Hebrew, Tobit written in Aramaic and Hebrew, and part of Baruch in Greek. These discoveries show the fluidity of the canon at that time."
The find also included texts by the community, scriptural commentaries and other writings which illuminate the life of the people who made and treasured the scrolls. They form a vital part of understanding the life of first-century Judaism, the textual history of the scriptural canon, and the fertile religious soil in which the Church took root and grew.
As Father Brady says, "They allow us to see how some Jews lived, thought and worshipped in the first century and broaden our understanding of the Messianic and eschatological expectations of Judaism when Jesus began to preach and teach about the Kingdom of God."
Due to their fragile nature, scrolls rarely leave Israel, where they are kept under strict environmental controls. The current exhibit is mounted by the Israel Antiquities Authority and includes copies of the Books of Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Psalms, Isaiah, Tobit and Jeremiah. There are also phylacteries (small Scripture passages worn in leather containers on the head or arm), a piece of the pseudoepigraphal book of Enoch, apocryphal psalms, a commentary on Genesis, and pieces of the community's own rules.
Because of the extreme fragility of the scrolls, special precautions are required. As Steve Snyder, vice president of exhibits and program development at the Franklin Institute, observes: "With any exhibit with objects of the value and historic importance of this level, a great deal of care must be taken to responsibly display these objects. There are complicated procedures for transportation, installation and display to care for the objects, so that future generations will have access to the history they represent."
Of the 20 large pieces, only 10 are displayed at once, in order to keep their exposure time to a minimum.
"The scrolls are displayed in cases designed to provide very strict climate conditions," says Snyder. "The cases are sealed, and the temperature and humidity within each case is controlled with a specially designed machine that feeds air to the case at a set of very specific levels. Staff monitor these conditions around the clock. As light exposure is also a concern, the levels are kept extremely low, and the number of hours that any of the scrolls can be displayed is limited and carefully monitored."
The scrolls did not make the journey to America alone. Although they are the marquee draw, equally interesting is the large collection of artifacts from the Holy Land. The exhibit begins with a seven-minute live introduction, complete with six giant screens showing footage from Holy Land digs and examples of jars from the major periods of Israel's history, including a jar of the kind that held the scrolls.
The exhibit tells the story of the Israelites through the objects they left behind, illuminating home life, court life and religious beliefs in the First and Second Temple periods. Among the highlights are an exquisite ivory pomegranate and dove smaller than a pinkie fingernail. An extensive and fascinating collection of household goddesses show the persistent backsliding of the Jewish people into idolatry, which is a consistent theme throughout the Scriptures. Money, including coins used to pay the Temple tax, forms a direct link to the New Testament, evoking the encounter of Christ with the moneychangers.
Various personal items, a large collection of pottery, some fine mosaics, a couple of private horned altars for burning incense, a ritual bath from the High Place at Dan, architectural elements, items from Qumran and Masada, and other objects create an extensive portrait of almost 1,000 years of material culture. A large stone block which fell from the wall of the Second Temple completes the tour.
"The exhibit is remarkable not only in the display of the scrolls themselves," says Snyder, "but for the range of artifacts, spanning over 3,000 years of history. It offers a glimpse into lives ranging from the person on the street to kings in their palaces at the time of the stories of Solomon, Herod and Jesus."
Thomas L. McDonald
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Planning Your Visit
Tickets are $31 for adults, $25 for youth, and come with access to the rest of the Franklin Institute. Visit FI.edu/scrolls for more information.


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After last year's Quickster and price raising fiascos, Netflix might have found its niche in the home media marketplace. The subscriber will air an all-new season of the cancelled Fox series Arrested Development next year, and now comes word that they're eying yet another TV show to resurrect: Jericho. The CBS series took place in a fictional Kansas town in the aftermath of devastating nuclear attacks on the United States. Fans famously sent packages of peanuts to CBS when the show was in danger of being cancelled after one season, so the network ordered another season in 2007. Subsequent attempts at pressuring the network into a third season proved futile, but Netflix may be coming to the rescue. Hit the jump for more.
Per TV Guide, Netflix has approached CBS about possibly reviving the series exclusively through their service. Apparently repeat episodes of Jericho are extremely popular on Netflix even though the show has been off the air for four years, so they decided to look into bringing the show back. The report cautions that talks are in the preliminary stages, so all of this could be for naught, but it's an extremely interesting development in the ongoing evolution of Netflix.
Last year's price hike troubles greatly hindered the subscription service, and Netflix lost a significant portion of their subscribers. Fans became enthusiastic when news broke that Netflix was bringing Arrested Development back, and the fact that the service is looking into reviving another cult favorite show could be a preview of what's to come. Their business model doesn't depend on how many people watch a particular program at a particular time, and if they make resurrecting cult favorites their niche, I could see a bevy of people signing up just to continue watching a beloved series.
As I said, this is early days so the Jericho deal is far from done, but I find this possible business model extremely interesting and I'm intrigued to see how far Netflix will take it. They already have multiple original series in development, including David Fincher's House of Cards, so it's obvious that they strive to become more similar to a cable network.


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HD-DVD : Première offensive
Toshiba Deploys New HD DVD Marketing Initiatives Based on Strong Fourth Quarter Unit Sales
Mass Market Acceptance Confirms that HD DVD is the Consumer's Choice for
Next Generation High Def Entertainment
WAYNE, N.J., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Toshiba America Consumer Products,
L.L.C. ("Toshiba") today announced that it is stepping up its successful
marketing campaign for HD DVD as it experienced record-breaking unit sales
in the fourth quarter of 2007. Major initiatives, including joint
advertising campaigns with studios and extended pricing strategies will
begin in mid- January and are designed to spotlight the superior benefits
of HD DVD as well as the benefits HD DVD brings to a consumer's current DVD
library by upconverting standard DVDs via the HDMI(TM) output to near high
definition picture quality.
As Toshiba achieved the #1 sales volume in the next generation DVD
category with an approximately 50 percent market share in 2007, HD DVD is
proven to be the format of choice for consumers. Coupled with an 80 percent
plus market share of all next generation DVD equipped notebooks for the 4th
quarter 2007, the HD DVD format has already paved the way to a high
definition digital AV solution by eliminating the boundaries between the
consumer's living room and on the go.
HD DVD not only creates the ultimate high definition entertainment
experience, leveraging all of the promise of the format such as superior
audio/video performance, Web-enabled network capabilities and advanced
interactive features - it also has a high-level of compatibility with DVD.
With DVD upconversion via the HDMI output, HD DVD players instantly make a
movie lover's existing DVD library look better than ever.
"HD DVD is the best way to watch movies in high definition," said Jodi
Sally, Vice President of Marketing, Toshiba's Digital A/V Group. "Our HD
DVD players not only play back approximately 800 HD DVD titles available
worldwide and deliver an entirely new level of entertainment but also
enhance the picture quality to near high definition on legacy DVD titles by
all studios. In short, we added high def to DVD which already is the de
facto standard format created and approved by the DVD Forum that consists
of more than two hundred companies."
New Marketing Strategy for Mass Market Adoption
Taking the holiday season sales based on promotional prices into full
consideration, these new manufacturer's suggested retail prices (MSRP) are
designed to meet the potential demand for HD DVD players in the U.S.
market. Effective on January 13, 2008 the MSRP of the entry-model HD-A3
will be $149.99, the HD-A30, with 1080p output, $199.99, and the high-end
"While price is one of the consideration elements for the early
adopter, it is a deal-breaker for the mainstream consumer," said Yoshi
Uchiyama, Group Vice President Digital A/V Group. "Consumer sales this
holiday season have proven that the consumer awareness of the HD DVD format
has been elevated and pricing is the most critical determinant in
consumers' purchase decision of
the next generation HD DVD technology. The value HD DVD provides to the
consumer simply cannot be ignored."
Extended Advertising Campaign
Toshiba plans to execute an extended advertising campaign that will
further enhance consumer awareness of the benefits of HD DVD and drive
sales to retail among potential consumers. Advertising strategies will
include television, print and online media channels. Toshiba will also work
with its dealers and studio partners on joint marketing and promotional
initiatives to promote HD DVD. Current promotions include "The Perfect HD
Offer" - a mail-in offer allowing consumers to select five HD DVD titles
for free from a selection of 15 with the purchase of any Toshiba HD DVD
Consistent Viewing Experience and More
With advanced interactivity and Web-enabled network capabilities built
into every HD DVD player through a dedicated Ethernet port as mandated by
the specifications approved by the DVD Forum, Toshiba delivers on the
promise of a consistent entertainment experience through firmware updates
as studios launch new applications. HD DVD allows studios to flex their
creative muscle in ways never before seen. The latest of these new
experiences is online streaming. Now, when consumers connect their HD DVD
player to the Internet, they can stream new content or trailers, as
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This my post is provoked by a sad comment by Jacob George to the previous post:
I asking at school in the late 90s why we were no longer allowed to use school computers to program in our spare time. I was told "Someone else will be writing the software that you'll be using"…
"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is a catchy phrase coined by Ernst Haeckel, a 19th century German biologist and philosopher to mean that the development of an organism (ontogeny) expresses all the intermediate forms of its ancestors throughout evolution (phylogeny) [quote stolen from here].
Rephrasing Haeckel, a child development recapitulates the history of civilisation.
Raspberry Pi (on which I wrote earlier) is, in my opinion, an a example of retro-technology desperately needed for introduction into schools and children's games.
I quote a relatively recent report on the state of physics by Alan Smithers and Pamela Robinson:
"Physics is in the grip of a long-term downward spiral. Not enough young people … take physics degrees, which means the pool from which to recruit teachers is not large enough. Many young people do not get sufficient opportunity to discover if they are good at physics and they are naturally disinclined to take what they believe is a difficult subject at A-level."
As in the case of mathematics, one should not underestimate the role of wider cultural changes in the decline of physics education. Physicists of my generation frequently got their first exposure to real-life physics (and discovered that they are "good at physics") by mending, fixing and repairing radios and various electrical appliances at their homes. Nowadays electrical goods are, as a rule, unreparable — they either work, or otherwise you have to through them away. Computers are the only noticeable exception from this rule – but not computer monitors! Also, the modular structure of computers turns their repair into a task of information technology, not physics.
At my time, things were very different. One of my classmates at the boarding school (in 1971-73), for example, at the age of 14 was repairing TV sets for all his family friends and neighbours. For that purpose, he converted his family's TV set into an oscilloscope. It is important to clarify that the TV set did not lose its functionality, it still showed TV programmes — but when needed, it could be switched into the oscilloscope mode. I doubt that the same can be done with a modern plasma screen TV. I also have to add that I myself was hopeless in electronics — this is why I am a mathematician. And, of course, my classmate now is a professional research physicists, he is doing accelerators and elementary particles.
If we go even further back in time, Richard Feynman tells in his autobiographical essay He Fixes Radios by Thinking! how he has started his glorious career in physics by fixing his neighbours' radios. Feymnan explains:
Radio circuits were much easier to understand in those days because everything was out in the open. After you took the set apart (it was a big problem to find the right screws), you could see this was a resistor, that's a condenser, here's a this, there's a that; they were all labeled. And if wax had been dripping from the condenser, it was too hot and you could tell that the condenser was burned out. If there was charcoal on one of the resistors you knew where the trouble was. Or, if you couldn't tell what was the matter by looking at it, you'd test it with your voltmeter and see whether voltage was coming through. The sets were simple, the circuits were not complicated. The voltage on the grids was always about one and a half or two volts and the voltages on the plates were one hundred or two hundred, DC. So it wasn't hard for me to fix a radio by understanding what was going on inside, noticing that something wasn't working right, and fixing it.


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(Raleigh, NC – Oct. 12, 2010) Environmental Defense Fund (edf.org), widely recognized for its innovative private sector partnerships with business, is now working with universities in the public sector to reduce carbon emissions, improve energy efficiency and increase the number of diverse environmental leaders. A video released today documents EDF's landmark work with minority-serving institutions, or MSIs, and showcases the roles of EDF Climate Corps Public Sector and Alpha Goes Green in increasing student involvement and integrating green business strategies into college courses.
EDF has been working with MSIs in North Carolina since 2009. The program will expand to Texas and New York in 2011. Plans call for the program to expand to other states in 2012.
MSIs include historically black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, and tribal colleges and universities. In North Carolina, universities are the largest energy users in state buildings. The 16 campuses in the University of North Carolina system account for more than 50 percent of energy use in the state's public buildings. MBA students specially trained by EDF Climate Corps Public Sector showed two campuses how to save $14 million in energy costs in five years.
"Universities are in a unique position to teach sustainable business strategies and demonstrate the results from those practices," said Michael Regan, EDF Energy and Air Policy Manager and former EPA manager. "Partnerships with minority-serving institutions help broaden environmental leadership by harnessing the power of diversity. Campuses offer lifelong lessons on better ways to protect communities, public health and the environment."
In addition to universities, EDF Climate Corps Public Sector places fellows in municipalities and places of worship. Alpha Goes Green is an EDF partnership with Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., to educate the fraternity's student and alumni chapters about sustainability practices.
Environmental Defense Fund (edf.org), a leading national nonprofit organization, creates transformational solutions to the most serious environmental problems. EDF links science, economics, law and innovative private-sector partnerships. See twitter.com/EnvDefenseFund and facebook.com/EnvDefenseFund.


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The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum develops Open Standards and Accreditation Programs for Product Integrity and Supply Chain Security - Mitigating the Risk of Tainted and Counterfeit Parts
The Open Group provides a collaborative, open environment for technology companies, customers, government and supplier organizations to create and promote guidelines for manufacturing, sourcing, and integrating trusted, secure technologies. Our objective is to shape global procurement strategies and best practices to help reduce threats and vulnerabilities in the global supply chain.
Governments and enterprises that use global standards in their technology strategy and purchasing decisions can rely on a more comprehensive approach to risk management and product assurance when selecting commercial off-the-shelf technology products. Vendors and suppliers that adhere to these practices will be able to better protect the integrity of their products and services as they move through the global supply chain.
Leveraging its more than 20 years of experience in creating industry best practices, standards, certification and accreditation programs for global organizations in all verticals, The Open Group provides guidance and a vendor-neutral collaborative environment for The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum (OTTF) members to identify industry best practices and define a globally recognized program for providers who implement the best practices.
Outstanding Contribution Award:
"In February 2016, Edna Conway - Chief Security Officer, Global Value Chain, Cisco Systems - was presented with the Outstanding Contribution Award by Steve Nunn, President and CEO of The Open Group, an international standards body working to establish open, vendor-neutral IT standards and certifications in a variety of subject areas critical to the enterprise. The award recognized Edna's 5 years of service as Vice-Chair of The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum, and her contribution to Information Technology Security as an author of ISO/IEC 20243 (The Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard)."
Recent Developments
The Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard – Mitigating Maliciously Tainted and Counterfeit Products (O-TTPS), Version 1.1 was recently approved as ISO/IEC 20243
The O-TTPS is an open standard for organizational commercial best practices that when properly adhered to enhances the security of global supply chains and the integrity of commercial off the shelf (COTS) information and communications technology (ICT) products. It is a process based standard and provides a set of best practices that help assure specifically against maliciously tainted and counterfeit products throughout the COTS ICT product life cycle encompassing the following phases: design, sourcing, build, fulfillment, distribution, sustainment, and disposal. It is available on the ISO site for a fee, but it is freely available on The Open Group site at: www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/c147.htm
The O-TTPS Accreditation Program enables any organization that conforms to the standard to be accredited as an Open Trusted Technology Provider™ and is gaining uptake from large customers like NASA in their SEWP V procurement. This is a key enabler for differentiating organizations and ICT products to customers who are concerned about the security and trust of ICT and their global supply chains. The accreditation program is open to all ICT providers: OEMs, hardware and software component suppliers, integrators, Value-Add Resellers (VARs) and distributors. This not only gives customers the ability to identify and work with trusted/accredited IT business partners, but it also gives OEMs the capability to identify trusted/accredited component suppliers and distributors, they can partner with. More information about getting accredited can be found here: /certifications/o-ttps
Guidelines for Implementers of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF): This Implementation Guide demonstrates how the Open Trusted Technology Provider™ Standard (O-TTPS), a standard of The Open Group, developed by The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum (OTTF), can address some of the supply chain best practices that may be relevant to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF). Download it free here: https://www2.opengroup.org/ogsys/catalog/G151
Open Trusted Technology Provider™ Standard (O-TTPS), Version 1.1 (Chinese Translation) https://www2.opengroup.org/ogsys/catalog/C147CH
Datasheet describing the work of the Open Group Trusted Technology Forum (OTTF): This 2-page overview can be downloaded here: https://www2.opengroup.org/ogsys/catalog/Q103


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The MPro120 is 3M's second-generation pico projector and it's a distinct improvement over the MPro110, with a brighter picture, an LED light source rated at 20,000 hours instead of 10,000, and built-in half-watt speakers.
In case you don't know what a pico projector is, as its name implies, it's a miniature handheld projector that's capable of casting a big image (3M says the MPro120 can project an image from 8 inches to 50 inches). The key to these pint-size projectors is they use an LED light source that's very energy efficient. While Pico projectors come in different shapes and sizes, most cost between $300 and $400, and currently sport resolutions up to 640x480 pixels (so we're not talking high-definition). The MPro120 uses LCoS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) display technology; others use DLP. These are the same main technologies employed in rear-projection TVs, but projected on an external wall, movie theater-style, instead of the backside of a TV screen.
We liked the look and feel of the all-black MPro120 and found it simple to set up and use. Weighing 5.6 ounces and measuring 4.5 inches by 2 inches by 0.9 inch, it does indeed fit in a pocket (or easily slip in a laptop bag) and comes with a protective sleeve. You can prop the projector up at angle by flipping open the integrated flip stand (it's just a thin piece of plastic), or you can attach the included tripod to the threaded tripod mount on the bottom of the projector.
Out of the box, the easiest way to set up the projector is by connecting it to your laptop with the supplied computer connector or to a portable DVD player with the supplied composite AV cable (also referred to as an RCA adapter). The MPro 120 also includes a rechargeable battery. Its rated life is 4 hours, but that's at the lower brightness setting, which was really too dim. At the higher brightness setting, we got 2 hours. Fortunately, it can also work under AC power as well using the included wall charger.
Using your computer, you can then project a PowerPoint presentation on the wall, and so long as you didn't project the image too big (more than 26 inches or so), you'll get a passable image, though these types of projectors simply can't compete with full-size projectors that offer significantly brighter illumination and higher resolutions. Go any bigger and you really need the room to be dark and even then you're just not going to get the kind of brightness or sharpness you're used to with your laptop screen or traditional portable projectors.
The MPro120 has two brightness settings: High (12 lumens) and Normal (10 lumens). Most people will stick to the High setting unless you're trying to conserve battery life. Neither setting is terribly bright but we felt OK about the picture in the 24- to 26-inch range. Yes, you can go to as big as 50 inches, but the trade-off to going that large is a more washed-out image; you'll really have to play around with your throw-distance as well as your lighting conditions to find a size and image you're comfortable with.
At this point it's unclear whether these miniature projectors are designed for business or entertainment purposes (arguably, it's both), but either way it's disappointing that 3M didn't bundle in some sort of adapter for video-capable iPods and iPhones. Company reps were nice enough to ship us an optional Apple adapter that came out recently, but it costs $49.99. (Currently, if you buy the MPro120 on 3M's Web site, you get the adapter with the purchase, but the projector costs $349.99--compared with $299.99 on Amazon--so the deal is essentially a wash.)


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I'm using win 8.1 pro, but i think win 10 and 8.1 have the same problem.
I found this: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/september ... any-games/
and set it to automatic. Now i can continous playing RTK XI. U can try it.
The site also explains that the fix is not for Win 10. So no, it doesn't cover Win 10. Gray Riders has Win 8.1, not Win 10. I believe I explained in a previous post what the problem is; the article gives the same account, though with more detail. But in any case, there is no solution for Win 10, other than to use a VM.
However, as you might note, the problematic update is for September 2015, but we started posting about our problems a month earlier in August 2015. Also, the site notes that the problem is for Win 7 and Win 8.1. It seems very likely that having purposely removed support for the DRM in Win 10, Microsoft decided to expand the blocking of that DRM in Win 7 and Win 8.1 because the DRM is seen to be a security issue, and so that update was launched a couple months after Win 10 came out.
I see that you did say right off the bat to use a VM, and thank you for reminding me; I am sorry that I have not given you your due credit in my previous posts. What I did give is a more detailed account. For instance, I explained that Hyper-V won't work, but what would. I suppose you're savvy enough to know how all that stuff works, but for someone who isn't, I offered more of an idea of what to do, so that no one else has to go through the painful experience I did.
Btw, I understand that such a solution is obvious to you, but please try to understand that what is obvious to you is not obvious to everyone. It wasn't obvious to me. What seemed obvious to me was to either 1) Use the no-CD crack as had been suggested on some sites or 2) use compatibility mode. Setting up a VM takes more work, and is a bit less obvious, at least to me.
That's interesting that Win XP is the best choice for this game. I didn't know that. Does it have less glitches, crash less, look better? I don't really want to get a copy set up now that I have it on Win 7 on my VM, but if it's worth the while, I might give it a shot.
Besides, their workaround might still be necessary if you're using Win 7/8 in your VM under Win 10.
What bothered me is that you've turned up your nose at bellelda contribution and, at least to me, seemed too cocky over "your solution"
But then, it doesn't make it an accomplishment worth of a Pulitzer.
Sure you try compatibility mode first, but heirtothestar had already said it wasn't working for him
(I know, I know, you haven't noticed the game was that old and released under XP)
So yes, on Win XP you have less bugs/crashs (although still far from perfect)
Sorry if I look aggressive
but more than anything else I'm alerting to the fact that even using Win 7/8 in a VM under Win 10 many people will still have to do that workaround, be it because they updated their virtual Win7/8, be it because they downloaded an updated iso somewhere to put in their VM.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to sound cocky, or 'turn up my nose' at bellelda. I began by thanking bellelda for the info (and then thanked bellelda again for the advice later in the post). I then offered feedback by proceeding to explain why it would not help those with Win 10, which is the topic of the thread. I don't see why this is turning up my nose?
As far as being cocky about my solution, it is pretty much the only solution for Win 10, right? I don't see why that makes me cocksure, though I do feel certain of the truth of it, and the linked article doesn't suggest anything different for a Win 10 user. But it's also true, as you pointed out, that updated Win 7 and 8.1 will be affected, and if they are used in VM, that can become a problem for the solution I support. I overlooked this consequence, and I apologize for that.
Oh come on man, I'm advertising a solution that worked, nothing more. It's the fact that there's a workable solution that's important, not that it came from me.
Of course, I had already been working on the problem myself before heirtothestar had posted, and had tried compatibility mode, which is why I mentioned that as one of the things I tried first. You'll see that I tried to confirm with heirtothestar if our problem was the same in all details when trying to work with compatibility mode.
Okay, now it seems to me like you are the one who is cocksure. I have been playing these games since the first installation in the series. So not surprisingly, I'm quite well aware of how old it is (and that it is still the best version, imho). I don't know why you should think you knew that I hadn't noticed such a thing. Just because it's old doesn't mean compatibility isn't worth a shot, and wouldn't be the easiest solution, though perhaps not the best.
That's great to know! I haven't had too much of a problem with Win 7 yet, and from reading around, I see the unfortunately endless "building/destroying" phenomenon with the AI is a bug that will appear even if I use Win XP. I just try to avoid delegation, though I found this bug can appear if a human player's ruler is turned over to the AI at some point in a game. Very annoying.
I had seen the translation of the changelog before, but I thought perhaps the updates had been included from the outset with the English version, since it came out after the updates (I think?).
Very. I'm quite thankful for your work and contributions to translation, as well as the save information you've shared, but I have been very surprised by what I feel is an overly aggressive reaction to my posting. It makes me feel like you don't want to count my efforts as helpful or appreciated, which is funny, since you're accusing me of doing the same to bellelda. After all, you make a point of saying that you suggested the solution first, it's supposed to be the obvious solution, and you reference it as my solution with scare quotes. I did thank bellelda for the info, but I overlooked how it affected the solution I offered (the hosted Win 7 in VM), and so I'm guilty of not seeing how the info was genuinely helpful. I don't see that it makes me guilty of other things, like being arrogant or thinking I'm owed a Pulitzer. That's a bit over the top, don't you think? I just made an honest mistake.
Again, this is a great point. I just wish you hadn't felt it necessary to try taking me to task along with this great point. Or really, it's the tone you take that I feel is undeserved. You could have pointed out my mistake, and I would have acknowledged it and offered an apology, and it would have proceeded and ended amicably. I'm sorry that you found my response to bellelda was somehow morally inappropriate, and I certainly didn't mean to demean bellelda or the offered advice. I do think it's a good thing that you spoke up to show how bellelda's advice is relevant for a Win 10 solution and that it's a valuable contribution.
Although it didn't end amicably, I believe it ended fair enough.
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Ten Years Later, We're Still Fighting Against Senseless War
Ten years ago I arose at 5:30 am in my small town of Arlington, Massachusetts to be out the door of my house to get to our town center where, as bus captain, I was meeting our 7 a.m. bus to New York City.
We were going to protest the coming war on Iraq. It turned out to be the largest series of protests ever to take place on the same day, on the same issue. Around the world, in nation after nation and in every capital city, people gathered in the protests known as "The World Says No to War."
In New York, Richie Havens took to the stage with his Woodstock classic "Freedom." Bishop Desmond Tutu spoke, Peter Seeger sang "Over the Rainbow" and Representative Sheila Jackson Lee spoke of no longer greeting people's needs with a closed fist, but an open hand.
It was a freezing cold day, we New Englanders were dressed in our many layers. We were literally praying that the leaders would heed our people's wisdom, which as we know ten years later, they did not.
Estimates vary, but it looks like over a million Iraqis were killed during the U.S. invasion and occupation. Weapons of mass destruction – the purported excuse for war – never materialized, even when former President Bush hunted for them under his desk. The people who came out ten years ago went home, exhilarated at first at what they had participated in, but the exhilaration did not last when shock and awe began.
Instead of sustained and escalating action for peace, the masses of people went home and acquiesced.
My small peace group in a small New England town did not quit. Instead, we have engaged in a protracted struggle to hold the ground open for dissent and to seize every opportunity to confront our community with the issue of unsustainable militarism, that is an illness deeply buried in the very marrow of our nation.
We continue to vigil as the wars wind down, but the drone attacks ramp up. We have not yielded one inch in our condemnation and repudiation of the destructive war policies that bankrupt our nation, morally and financially. We know we are not alone. Peaceniks around the country stand in village squares in a refusal to allow the disappearance of our constitutional rights and the departures from our laws to pass unremarked, even if we cannot bring about crucial changes, because our numbers are too small. Today, the burden of standing out for peace lays lightly across our shoulders, we are not afraid. The tide turned some time ago, we are no longer cursed but get the thumbs up as people motor by.
Last spring we gathered hundreds of signatures to put a question on the November 2012 ballot across Massachusetts. Called Budget for All, http://budget4allmass.org, it asked people to vote on redirecting military spending to prevent cuts in Medicare or Social Security, to create jobs by investing in schools, housing, renewable energy. Budget For All won in all 91 cities and towns where it was on the ballot.
Meanwhile, we know the bridges that must be built, across the divides and difficulties that humanity faces, of rich and poor, of men and women, between nations and generations, between people and planet Earth. These are the great tasks that face us at this critical time in human history. Building these bridges is taking the exalted path to the future, and we urge everyone to take this path, for love of life. This is the greatest lesson we have learned as we recall the outpouring of energy and effort that we participated in ten years ago.


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HOUSTON – Behold Boniek Garcia: a rail-thin, lightning-fast, always-smiling Honduran midfielder just a few months into his US adventure. And yet, in the Houston Dynamo's Eastern Conference Semifinal series with Sporting Kansas City, which begins with the first leg on Sunday (3:30 pm ET, NBC) he might just turn out to be the critical X factor.
From day one of his June arrival, Boniek Garcia has fit perfectly in with the Dynamo system. In 18 games, he scored four goals and six assists. But that only begins to show his value to the side.
See Garcia and the Dynamo take on Sporting KC Sunday at BBVA Compass Stadium
"[Boniek's] brought an unorthodox approach to the game where guys have never seen it before," remarked defender Bobby Boswell. "He's just an added element. We get to see it every day in practice so it's a little different than a guy seeing it on the weekend for the first time. He makes things happen and creates some great chances for guys."
That "unorthodox" style of attack is marked by its creativity, its quickness, and its unpredictability. He has a graceful touch and the ability to slash through pressure, maintaining possession in tight situations. But he also can hold the ball and distribute like a target forward. Plus, his pace allows him to create space for himself, such as when he dribbled past Chicago's Jalil Anibaba last week, opening up more space as he pulled away.
Against a high-pressure team like Kansas City, having a midfielder that can transition the ball from back to front gives Houston a second option to break pressure than to just lob the ball out of pressure.
In addition to his work with the ball at his feet, Garcia put in his fair share defensively. More than willing to drop back and cover, Garcia allows defenders such as Kofi Sarkodie and Boswell the license to get forward against a KC squad that will look to counter.
Put it all together, and Garcia is a rare commodity who could be the difference between two clubs that are so evenly matched.
"[Boniek] really adds a spark for us especially offensively and he's a guy that doesn't mind working back and getting behind the ball as well," said Brad Davis about the right midfielder. "He brings a lot of energy to the field obviously, and loves playing the game. It's refreshing."
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The well-travelled Cardiff striker said on Thursday that his body "couldn't take it any more".
Bellamy's decision brings to an end a 17-year senior career, concluded with a spell at his home-town club.
Bellamy joined Cardiff on loan and then permanently to fulfil a dream of playing for them, and the narrative he wanted arrived as City were promoted to the Premier League.
And, even though he was unable to stop them going straight back down in what has turned out to be his last season, he retires with satisfaction.
In an interview given to Wales Online he said: "It's been on my mind to finish playing for the last couple of years, but this time I've had to make a decision
I've had to listen to my body.
"I guess over the years I've become accustomed to the pain from various injuries, but for the last three to four years I've been on anti-inflammatories every day.
"I'm not sure my body will think that's a wise thing in due course, but it kept me playing for that period.
"However, the time has come to stand aside and say enough
My body can't take any more.
"When Cardiff got promoted, it was the sense of achievement with my home-town club that meant most to me, rather than being able to play another season in the Premier League
I had performed at that level for 12 years anyway, the goal of getting Cardiff up there meant more to me than actually playing there again myself.
"But I spoke to Malky Mackay (the manager at the time) and he talked me around for one last challenge
I wasn't sure I could offer too much."
Bellamy says there have been offers from both England and America, but is now planning on pursuing a coaching career.
The 78-cap Wales international, who started out with Norwich in 1997, added: "I do have lots of business activities to keep me busy and I'm taking my full coaching badges
I've got A, B and C, I just need to do the Pro-Licence which will prepare me properly for management."
Bellamy has not always been regarded as the friendliest of characters during a career that also took in Coventry, Newcastle, Celtic, Blackburn, West Ham, Manchester City and two spells with Liverpool, but he claims the man the fans saw at the end of his time was a truer reflection of his personality
"I've been an angry young man at times
So much of my career was affected by injuries
Not just the well-documented surgery, but the hamstring pulls and other things
Injuries hit me hard and they always seemed to come at key times
Back then I didn't understand my body as well as I began to do towards the end of my career," he said.
"But I think that anger I've displayed has been channelled into making me a better player
It gave me determination to get through those many injury problems.
"I was always far more at ease with myself as a player during the last couple of years with Cardiff.
"If truth be known, I got little enjoyment for large parts of my career
In hindsight, I needed to reflect more, be proud of what I did
Instead, I set myself unrealistic targets at times.
"But in the last couple of years I've been more proud, able to step back, enjoy my accomplishments
Why? Because my mind was in a good place."
Bellamy retires with 169 career goals, a League Cup and Community Shield won at Liverpool and a Scottish Cup from his time at Celtic.
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Cat man Kostich! Greene kitties get new home
When news got out that Greene County builder Ted Kostich would be donating nearly $40,000 of his own money to build a shelter for the cats of Greene County, he got some good natured ribbing.
"I got a new nickname for you," one friend teased: "The cat man."
But to Kostich, the stray animal situation in Greene County is no laughing matter– especially when it comes to cats.
"There is nowhere for stray cats to go," says Kostich, citing Albemarle-Charlottesville SPCA's recent decision to stop taking stray cats from Greene. Last year alone, he says, 500 felines were taken from Greene County to the Albemarle-Charlottesville SPCA.
Caroline Foreman, director of the Albemarle- Charlottesville SPCA, says making that decision was "incredibly difficult," but it had to be done. "We were putting a bandaid on a hemorrhage," she explains. "We couldn't financially afford to take their cats."
Of Kostich's donation for the cats, Foreman says, "It's an amazing thing, and it's so necessary. The breeding and the illness– they're dying a terrible death."
Since the numbers of stray cats is growing ever larger, Kostich says more and more are suffering. And, he points out, it's a serious public health hazard.
"There have been several cats up here with rabies," he says, citing one incident just down the road from the Greene County home he shares with his wife, Sandy, and their three cats and five dogs.
For both Kostiches, adding a cat shelter to the volunteer-run Greene County Animal Shelter has been a longtime dream; he and Sandy decided five years ago to start putting money in the kitty.
"We were getting close to doing it," Kostich says, "and then Albemarle-Charlottesville's decision forced our hand."
Though the couple hadn't saved up quite as much as they had hoped, donations from private citizens and from subcontractors who offered to do work for free or at cost allowed the Kostiches to move the project forward, with a planned groundbreaking in the next two weeks.
"It would have cost about $80,000 without that assistance," says Kostich, who estimates his final cost for the shelter will come in at $37,000.
While Kostich says cats are benefiting most from his and Sandy's beneficence right now, they have high hopes for Greene County's dogs as well.
"Our goal," he says, "is to try to have no dog or cat go out the door without being spayed or neutered or without the coupon to take it to a local vet."
Anyone interested in making a donation of time, money, or services to the soon-to-expand Greene County Animal Shelter should contact Ted or Sandy Kostich at 985-7556 or write to P.O. Box 358 Quinque, VA 22965
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33 CFR § 230.21 - Adoption.
§ 230.21 Adoption.
See 40 CFR 1506.3. A district commander will normally adopt another Federal agency's EIS and consider it to be adequate unless the district commander finds substantial doubt as to technical or procedural adequacy or omission of factors important to the Corps decision. In such cases, the district commander will prepare a draft and final supplement noting in the draft supplement why the EIS was considered inadequate. In all cases, except where the document is not recirculated as provided in 40 CFR 1506.3 (b) or (c), the adopted EIS with the supplement, if any, will be processed in accordance with this regulation. A district commander may also adopt another agency's EA/FONSI.


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Will corn and soybean prices return to pre-drought levels?
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[December 13, 2012]
URBANA -- In the past five decades, extreme
drought conditions in the United States such as those experienced in
2012 have been followed by generally favorable growing conditions
and yields near trend values. However, current dry soil conditions
in much of the United States and some recent forecasts that drought
conditions could persist well into next year have raised concerns
that such a rebound in yields may not occur in 2013, according to
University of Illinois agricultural economist Darrel Good.
Good said that five or
six years ago, the corn yield discussion was dominated by thoughts
that corn yields were increasing due to new seed technology and that
corn yields were "bulletproof." That discussion seemed to gloss over
the impact of an extended period of very favorable weather.
"The pendulum has now swung in the other direction, with the
current corn yield discussion dominated by the potential of an
extended period of dry weather and sub-par yields," Good said. "Only
time will tell if the concerns are legitimate. For now, such
concerns may motivate another year of large corn acreage. A return
to a near-trend corn yield would then result in a very large crop in
2013. A large crop along with a plateau in the amount of corn used
in the production of ethanol would result in a substantial buildup
of stocks during the 2013-14 marketing year and corn prices at or
below the levels prior to the drought of 2012."
Good reported that soybean prices are being supported by a rapid
pace of exports and domestic consumption. However, prospects are
still in place for a record harvest in South America. "Such a crop,
in combination with a rebound in U.S production in 2013, would
likely result in a buildup of stocks next year and prices at the
level of late 2011," he said.
According to Good, March 2013 corn futures dropped below $5.50 in
early May 2012 and were drifting lower when U.S. drought conditions
turned prices higher starting in mid-June. The price of that
contract peaked in early August, just short of the $8.50 mark. March
2013 soybean futures dropped below $11.50 in December 2011 before
South American drought conditions and then U.S. drought conditions
sent that contract above $17.25 by mid-September 2012.
"Corn prices have declined by more than $1 since the late-summer
peak, while soybean prices have declined by more than $3," Good
said. "The general expectation has been that prices of both
commodities would return to pre-drought levels as early as 2013 as
consumption adjusted to the lower supplies and as production
rebounded in both the South America and the United States. The
futures market currently reflects expectations that corn prices will
moderate substantially from current levels by the fall of 2013 as
larger crops are harvested in Argentina and then in the U.S.," he
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Good reported that December 2013 futures, for example, are priced
95 cents below December 2012 futures. The soybean market expects
prices to moderate from current levels by the summer of 2013 as a
large South American crop is harvested. August 2013 futures prices
are nearly 60 cents lower than March 2013 prices. Further price
reductions are expected into the fall of 2013 as a larger U.S. crop
is harvested. November 2013 futures are about 85 cents below the
price of August 2013 futures. Still, the prices of both commodities
for delivery in the 2013-14 marketing year are well above the levels
prior to the drought of 2012.
"Corn prices are being supported at relatively high levels due to
a combination of production uncertainty and uncertainty about
whether the rate of consumption has slowed sufficiently," Good said.
The USDA's December Grain Stocks and Annual Crop Production
reports to be released on Jan. 11 will provide more clarity about
the rate of domestic feed and residual use of corn and the
availability of U.S. corn for the remainder of the current marketing
"Those reports are expected to reveal a high rate of feed and
residual use of corn during the first quarter of the 2012-13
marketing year and a smaller 2012 harvest than previously forecast,"
Good said.
"Production uncertainty, on the other hand, will persist much
longer. The potential size of the South American crops will be
clearer by February. Current concerns are focused on the impact of
extremely wet conditions in parts of Argentina. Prospects for the
U.S crop will not be cleared up for several months," he said.
[Text from file received from the
University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and
Environmental Sciences]
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2003 News Releases > January 2003 > Wayland coach preparing for Olympics
Wayland coach preparing for Olympics
PLAINVIEW - No one ever told Stephen Moore the decathlon would be easy. Let's face it, how many people would consider spending two days competing in 10 grueling track and field events entertaining?
Moore didn't. In fact, as a freshman at Abilene Christian University he decided the decathlon wasn't for him after fewer than two months of training.
"I didn't really like it," he said while sitting at his desk in a small office behind the stands at Wayland Baptist University's Hutcherson Activity Center. "It was way more time-demanding than what I felt like I wanted to put into it."
Moore, now a world-class decathlete, competed in his third Grand Prix event in France last September, finishing 10 th overall. The Grand Prix is a combination of decathlons in which each participant must compete in at least three meets. The three scores are added to determine the winner. While he finished 10 th overall, Moore was the second highest American finisher.
He has come a long way from that little freshman that didn't want to work too hard at the event. His turnaround was nearly immediate; thanks to his coach and mentor Chris Beene. With the encouragement of his coach, Moore went back to the decathlon as a sophomore, trained a full season and won the NCAA Division II national championship in 1996.
"He was the first national champion I ever coached," said Beene, who is in his first year as head track and field coach at Wayland.
Beene was an assistant coach at ACU under Wes Kittley who now heads the track program at Texas Tech University. Beene followed Kittley to Tech before taking the head job at Wayland. Upon accepting the WBU position, Beene knew exactly whom he wanted as his assistant.
"He told me before he had the job that he was one of the two finalists and if he got the job he was going to ask me to be his assistant," Moore said. "As soon as he got the job, he contacted me again and he officially offered me the assistant position."
Moore quickly signed on, choosing Wayland over any position he could have had with an NCAA school for one simple reason: "In the NAIA, I have the opportunity to work out with my athletes," he said.
The NCAA forbids world-class athletes to serve as coaches at its member schools, giving certain schools an unfair advantage in the recruiting game. Beene said, however, with Moore on the Wayland staff it gives the program that has previously produced five NAIA national indoor team titles and one NAIA national outdoor team title some additional credibility.
"It helps bring some validity to the recruiting process," Beene said. "Most kids have stars in their eyes of Division I, and they think that they have to go to that level to get good coaching and to really reach the potential they want to reach.
"My coach here is training for the 2004 Olympics. It shows where the program is going. (Athletes) realize the training they are going to get here is scientific and something that is going to help them get where they want to go."
Moore, 27, has continued to train and compete over the years and is currently training for the 2004 Olympics, which will be held in Athens. He has been ranked in the top 10 nationally since 1999. Currently, Moore is ranked fifth in the U.S. and 22nd in the world. He has been ranked as high as No. 4 nationally.
Since winning the national championship as a college sophomore, however, Moore has had a run of bad luck. In his junior year of competition, Moore qualified for the national meet, but tore his hamstring in the 100-meter run and couldn't complete the 10 events. The decathlon is spread over two days with athletes competing in the 100-meter run, long jump, shot put, high jump and 400-meter run on the first day, and the 110-meter hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and 1,500-meter run on the second day.
As a senior in 1999, Moore qualified for the national meet in the long jump, high jump and decathlon, winning the long jump with a distance of 24 feet, 8 inches. He also set the national record for a first-day total in the decathlon.
"I was pretty much on the way to breaking the Division II national record and in the 1,500-meters (metric mile) I had an asthma attack," Moore said.
When the trainer set foot on the track to administer aid, Moore was disqualified from the event. Still, he finished second overall, only four points out of first place.
"I was 6-or-700 points ahead of second place going into the last event, which was humongous," said Moore, whose personal best in the decathlon is 8,043 points.
"The 8,000-point mark in the decathlon is kind of a world class mark," Moore said. "If you can score over 8,000 points then you are really considered kind of elite."
Moore's run of bad luck continued in the 2000 Olympic trials when he no-heighted in the pole vault. The top three finishers at the Olympic trials make the Olympic team and Moore had all but sewn up third place.
"At that point, I was almost 300 points ahead of fourth place, which pretty much guaranteed me a slot on the team as long as I cleared the bar in the pole vault, got a legal throw in the javelin and finished the 1,500 meters," Moore said.
Moore cleared the bar on his first attempt, but on the way down he bumped it with his arm, knocking it off. Moore failed to clear the bar on his next two attempts. Beene, who coached him at the Olympic trials, said Moore's footwork was off just enough to keep him from completing the vaults correctly. Standing in the coaches' box, however, Beene wasn't in a position to give his protégé any coaching tips prior to his final vault.
"At that point, I was pretty much done," Moore said.
But the small (5-foot-10), mild-mannered Moore is far from finished. Not only is he still competing, he is passing on what he has learned to a younger group of track and field athletes. Coach Beene said Moore is a benefit to the Wayland track program, not only in his coaching, but also in setting an example.
"He is training a little bit, so they see his work ethic," Beene said. "They see the drills that he is doing and they have an idea how to do them right. He is a very mild-tempered person. He has a lot of patience, and I think they respect that."
Beene also knows the athletes are getting quality instruction.
"I can pretty much turn them over to him and know that he has been in my system and he knows what we are doing," Beene said.
As an elite athlete, Moore also participates in various camps and clinics around the country and brings back the latest training tips and techniques to better prepare Wayland's athletes for what they are going to face.
"At this point, I am probably pushing them more than they are pushing me," Moore said of training with the youngsters. "I hope to get some of them developed. I think some of the freshmen have the potential, by the time they get to be seniors, to push me a little bit."


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My Broken iPhone
Doug Aitken (Victoria Miro) at Art Basel Miami (via)
The day I moved to Brooklyn was the day my iPhone screen first shattered. I struggled to get my keys out of my purse while a group of students were waiting at the door for a friend to buzz them in. Unlocking the door in a confused jetlagged state, I held it open for each of them while juggling several bags with the other hand. After the last student entered the building, I stopped the door with my foot while attempting to redistribute the weight of my belongings. My iPhone slid out of my back pocket and on to the concrete.
The resulting spiderweb of a crack had no impact on the iPhone's haptic sensitivity. It looked ruined but worked just as well. Eventually, I got used to reading without much eye strain. There were even some benefits. Everyone knew which phone was mine at dinner parties with iPhones strewn on various counters and end tables. I never worried about dropping it again as the screen wasn't going to get any worse. And I didn't worry much about it getting stolen, either.
My broken iPhone also resulted in random conversations with strangers. In queues for restaurant bathrooms, on public transportation and park benches, I was asked again and again what happened, and why didn't I just take care of it? ...
City of Work by Michael Lewy
City of Work is a project by Michael Lewy including maps, charts, videos, letters, and 3D rendering made with Vue and Google SketchUp. I caught up with Lewy over email to find out more about how this city operates.
City of Work appears to be a superfiction of videos and architectural rendering. Could you describe the story behind it?
City of Work is a dystopian society. Work is all encompassing, vacation is chosen by lottery and each individual is tested at the HUMAN POTENTIAL INSTITUTE. I wanted to create a work that would use a lot of different media to discuss the ideas of success and failure. Along with the video I have also created blueprints, advertising, PowerPoint charts, social media, websites and architectural renderings.
The project seems inspired by corporate management training videos and human resources handbooks. Did you do any research outside of your own office experiences?
The Prelinger Archives, is a great resource for industrial films form the 40's and 50's – I look at those a lot. I also look at a lot of architecture from the 1970's, I have a fondness for the Brutalism period and Russian architecture.
How does one escape the City of Work?
It is gated city but I don't think of it as a prison. People end there by choice. So I guess you would escape by moving away.
RECOMMENDED READING: Maximal Nation by Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds (author of Retromania) writes a long essay considering "maximalism" in electronic music starting with the "awake" sounds of Rustie's Glass Swords: "The overall effect of pulling from all these different phases in the evolution of electronic music technology is a fiesta of retro-futures: as if flashing back simultaneously to all the moments when a bunch of new machines changed the sound of music could somehow redeliver that original shock of the now. But there's no melancholy for a "lost future," just delirious reiteration, thrilling overkill."
Compared with the analog hardware that underpinned early house and techno, the digital software used by the vast majority of dance producers today has an inherent tendency towards maximalism. In an article for Loops, Matthew Ingram (who records as Woebot) wrote about how digital audio workstations like Ableton Live and FL Studio encourage "interminable layering" and how the graphic interface insidiously inculcates a view of music as "a giant sandwich of vertically arranged elements stacked upon one another." Meanwhile, the software's scope for tweaking the parameters of any given sonic event opens up a potential "bad infinity" abyss of fiddly fine-tuning. When digital software meshes with the minimalist aesthetic you get what Ingram calls "audio trickle": a finicky focus on sound-design, intricate fluctuations in rhythm, and other minutiae that will be awfully familiar to anyone who has followed mnml or post-dubstep during the last decade. But now that same digital technology is getting deployed to opposite purposes: rococo-florid riffs, eruptions of digitally-enhanced virtuosity, skyscraping solos, and other "maxutiae," all daubed from a palette of fluorescent primary colors. Audio trickle has given way to audio torrent-- the frothing extravagance of fountain gardens in the Versailles style
I got quite a long way into this piece before discovering that the term "digital ...
James Bridle's Talk "Waving at the machines" at Web Directions South 2011
James Bridle's keynote from Web Directions South 2011 (Transcript.)
Beginning with a picture of a cupcake stand that is pixelated rather than printed in gingham or something more obvious, Bridle considers the allure of 8-bit designs, "augmented reality made physical" like Dear Photograph, the architecture of data centers, biometrics, Street View as a historical record, and iPhone photography. Especially thoughtful near the end, considering ways we might coexist with bots in the digital realm. A thorough look at the contemporary "robot-readable" design aesthetic.
Previously: The New Aesthetic
The Twilight Zone for the Facebook Age: Charlie Brooker's "The Black Mirror"
The Black Mirror is a British television program that premiered last night. Charlie Brooker, creater of the series, a media critic and host of the shows Screenwipe and How Television Ruined Your Life, was inspired by The Twilight Zone. Rod Serling's "quasi-fictional world" allowed for more political and provocative television scripts to go uncensored by networks and corporate sponsers, Brooker argues in the Guardian.
The first episode of The Black Mirror is provocative but with unambitious targets —the 24 hour newscycle, omnipresent social media— the disgusting premise is unmerited. One gets the sense it was written mostly to test television's limits; which may be a worthwhile demand itself. Nevertheless, upcoming episodes sound much more promising.
Trailer for The Black Mirror
Episode descriptions via The Guardian:
1. The National Anthem
Set slap-bang in the present, The National Anthem, starring Rory Kinnear and Lindsay Duncan, recounts what happens when fictional royal Princess Susannah is kidnapped and prime minister Michael Callow is presented with an unusual – and obscene – ransom request. The traditional media finds itself unable to even discuss what the demand is, while the Twittersphere foams with speculation and cruel jokes. As the ransom deadline nears, events start to gain a surreal momentum of their own. This was inspired partly by the kerfuffle over superinjunctions, and partly by the strange out-of-control sensation that takes grip on certain news days – such as the day Gordon Brown was virtually commanded to apologise to Gillian Duffy in front of the rolling news networks. Who was in charge that day? No one and everyone.
2. Fifteen Million Merits
In 1984, Apple ran a famous advert that implied the Mac might save mankind from a nightmarish Orwellian future. But what would a nightmarish Orwellian future that ran on Apple software actually look like? Probably a ...


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Document Reference: Parish Registers 1561 - 1902
The original Register may be viewed at the NRO who also sell fiches of the Registers. Copies are also available for use at LDS centres. "This copy of the old Smallburgh Registers was made for the Rev. H.T.Griffith and left by him to be kept with the other registers for the parish.....June 1897 H T Griffith, Smallburgh Rectory".
Transcribed by: Rose French
Date Added: October 11, 2000
Previous Year: 1669Next Year: 1671
GroomBride No. Notes
BELL HenryJOULER Mary